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Hyundai Motor is considering expanding production capacity at its Georgia assembly plant from 500,000 vehicles annually to between 700,000 and 800,000 units by 2028, CEO José Muñoz told CNBC on Thursd…
Longer-dated U.S. government bond yields steadied on Friday, as investor jitters over the Treasury Department's extended debt repurchase program and soaring national debt continue to weigh on markets.
Economic pressure is the United States' "most effective tool" against Iran, according to U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
Bitcoin was on track for a weekly gain of around 20% early on Friday, following a spate of positive developments for the world's largest cryptocurrency.
The technology sector experienced its most severe pullback of 2026 in early June, with the Nasdaq Composite plunging 4% on June 5th alone—marking its worst single-day decline since April 2025. The sem…
Film editor Billy Weber’s tranquil Los Angeles home has hit the market for $3.99 million.
Oil prices eased Friday but remained on track for a second consecutive week of gains, as hopes of a swift reopening of the Strait of Hormuz continued to fade.
The dollar index (DXY00) recovered from a 3-month low on Thursday and finished up +0.08%. Short covering emerged in the dollar on Thursday amid better-than-expected US economic news, including weekly …
French business activity contracted more than forecast in August, new data shows, in the first of several flash economic surveys this morning.
The U.S. government's efforts to manage pressure in the Treasury market may merely shift the problem down the road as a surge in global debt issuance tests investor demand, according to JPMorgan.
September arabica coffee (KCU26) closed up +4.10 (+1.14%) on Thursday, and September ICE robusta coffee (RMU26) closed down -16 (-0.43%).
Corn futures closed the Thursday session holding onto most of the intraday gains, up 1 to 5 ¾ cents across the front months. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was up 5 ½ cents at $4.50.
Cotton futures posted marginally mixed trade on Thursday, with contracts down 10 points to 44 points higher. Crude oil was up $2.32 with the US dollar index $0.054 higher.
Japan's headline inflation rate hit 1.9% in July, the highest level this year, as energy costs increase amid the Iran war.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman recently made headlines after Pershing Square Holdings' (PSHZF) second-quarter 2026 13F filing revealed that the fund bought a stake in Netflix (NFLX). This marks the …
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting convened on Thursday to discuss the latest in prediction markets regulation, including growing concerns on "menti…
Lean hog futures saw losses of 25 cents to $1.27 in the front months on Thursday, with the deferreds mixed. USDA’s national base hog price was reported at $92.34 in the Thursday PM report, up 24 cents…
Anthropic surpassed a $65 billion annualized revenue run rate in July and confidentially filed a draft S-1 in June, signaling a major upcoming IPO.
The wheat complex posted mixed action across the three exchanges on Thursday. Chicago SRW contracts were fractionally to 2 ½ cents higher on the day. KC HRW futures closed the day with fractionally mi…
Live cattle futures posted gains of 77 cent to $1.125 at the close, with August 7 cents lower. Cash trade has picked up a few at $355-360 dressed and $226. The Thursday morning Fed Cattle Exchange onl…
If Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent truly wants to bring the full force of the federal government to bear on what he sees as a misbehaving bond market, he can't go it alone. A sustained effort to brin…
Japan's historic effort to prop up the yen may have had an unintended consequence: giving some investors a better opportunity to double down on carry trade.
We’re in our 50s and have $1.5 million in traditional 401(k)s. Is it too early to start Roth conversions? “The last adviser we worked with lost a significant portion of our portfolio.” Read at source
The bond market is going to burst the stock-market bubble Rising yields threaten everything, especially overextended equities. Read at source